As a long time editor and developer in the Wikipedia and Wikimedia space, I’m of course sceptical about what Grokipedia is trying to be, and if it stands any chance of success. it may struggle to deliver the resilience, transparency, and community processes that keep projects like Wikipedia thriving, and in the early weeks the untouchable AI generated content was certainly not going to work moving forward.
However, in the last week or so editing became an option, hidden behind Grok as a safeguard against abuse.
I thought I’d have a look at trying to edit a few of areas of content to see what the experience is like, and capture some of the good and bad points.
In no particular order…
Broken link formatting
A fix attempt
The Donald Trump articles has some broken formatting, which looks like an incorrectly parsed or formatted Markdown link that is now just showing in the HTML of the page. For posterity, I captured a copy of this version of the page on archive.ph, but here is a snapshot of how it appears.
